Selling your soul

[theyellowhobbit]

http://www.off-the-map.org/idealab/articles/wsj_ebay_atheist.html

I wonder what would happen if I were to do something similar and open the bidding to Jews who see me as going "off the derech"?

Comments

[plus-c.livejournal.com]

See, I don't feel like it'd have the same appeal, because you're already very evidently Jewish. I dunno, might be worth a shot though.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

Well either some is Jewish or they are not Jewish. For example, Harrison Ford is Jewish according to Jewish law. Madonna is not. The level of practice, or so-called practice if we're talking about Madonna, is inconsequential to the person's Jewishness.

"Off The Derech"="Off the Path" i.e. not practicing/believing in a way that someone else sees as right. Though it assumes you were once "on the derech." Which one could say I was. I say I hit a spork in the road, and decided to go the road less traveled.

And how many observant Jews would be going on E-bay anyways?

I guess the big difference between Judaism and Christianity is that Judaism only with proseltyze [sp?] to Jews [and it wouldn't be "converting" them, it would be "helping them become more observant." You don't get a ceremony, or really any recognition for becoming Orthodox], while Christianity wants to convert everyone they can.